La Crosse Tribune Local News

Friday was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for University of Wisconsin-La Crosse students Josh Baker and Siiri Koski.

VIROQUA -- The Viroqua Police Department referred three minors to juvenile authorities after an investigation into pornographic material.

KENDALL -- Tourism generated $19.3 billion for Wisconsin's economy in 2015, Gov. Scott Walker said during a stop Friday along the Elroy-Sparta Bike Trail.

While I was a junior in high school, I must have read “The Lorax” by Dr. Seuss more than a hundred times.

When the United Auto Workers went on strike at the Electric Auto-Lite plant in January 1956, they faced the prospect of picketing their employer during some cold winter weather.

Thursday was the first time Kerrie Baures spoke publicly since her daughter Brooke died almost 18 months ago.

La Crosse’s planning department has begun to hear from developers interested in Riverside North as the May 6 deadline for formal expressions of interest approaches.

BARABOO — We had hoped the Department of Defense’s spending spree ended in the 1980s, when it was caught paying $435 for a hammer, $600 for a toilet seat and $7,000 for a coffee pot.

Prices on Thursday for a gallon of regular gas:

ONALASKA — Mayo Clinic Health System-Franciscan Healthcare and the Onalaska Parks and Recreation Department will co-host an open house from 3 to 6 p.m. Monday at the Onalaska Community Garden.

Competition for the 32nd District seat in the Wisconsin State Senate is heating up, with a challenger to incumbent Senate Minority Leader Jennifer Shilling, D-La Crosse, filing papers and an independent candidate also announcing his run.

The final financing piece of the plan to renovate the former Roosevelt Elementary School into affordable housing took a step forward Thursday after a La Crosse commission approved a $300,000 loan.

HOLMEN — Dave Braun and Troy Amdahl want to change the world with a word: Oola.

Faculty members from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse and three other UW System schools will work together to create an educational doctoral degree in student affairs administration and leadership.

U.S. Rep. Ron Kind announced Thursday that he is returning $125,547.82 to the U.S. Treasury to pay down the national debt.

MADISON -- Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser, a conservative whose opinions helped solidify a series of controversial changes in state law in recent years but was also known for his physical confrontation with a colleague, announced Wednesday he will…

Arlan Frels has been hired as executive director of the La Crosse County Convention and Visitors Bureau.

ONALASKA -- Mayo Clinic and the Onalaska Parks and Recreation Department will host an open house from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. Monday at the Onalaska Community Garden, on Theater Road next to the Franciscan Healthcare Onalaska clinic.

BANGOR — Work is scheduled to begin Monday on Hwy. 162 between the Dutch Creek Bridge and the Hwy. 16 intersection north of Bangor.

The City of La Crosse will pick up brush curbside next week. Brush should be out for pickup by 7 a.m. Monday.